{"id":1694,"date":"2019-02-10T20:42:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T04:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2019-02-10T20:42:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T04:42:38","slug":"my-kintsugi-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1694","title":{"rendered":"My Kintsugi Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;d been curious about finding a food safe epoxy for a sort of &#8220;Kintsugi&#8221; project for some time now. After I broke some plates, I decided I&#8217;d finally try it. I found this tutorial on YouTube which also recommends a food safe epoxy to try, and I thought it was really good:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eO9CnS-NqO8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, I made two changes to this method:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One, I guess because it is winter, the resin was not nearly tacky enough to hold together the ceramic any earlier than 2 hours, so I increased the wait time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two, I bought some 24k gold dust for the final dusting, instead of using food coloring. I think it really makes an incredible difference. And 24k gold is food safe, and and 5 grams of it cost the same as 5 grams of the food coloring dust he recommended, so I didn&#8217;t really see any reason not to use it? I guess if you want to microwave it, but honestly the look of the real gold is so superior that I&#8217;m willing to sacrifice microwavability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will also add that, adding coloring to the binding resin seemed useless, as the final coat painted on top is totally opaque? I did that anyway, but couldn&#8217;t figure out why it was suggested. It seemed like it just made cleanup the next day more difficult and everything more messy in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the resulting plates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/40091761633\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7867\/40091761633_a73e5daf15_z.jpg\" alt=\"Kintsugi Project\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/47056594041\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7875\/47056594041_70a18fe737_z.jpg\" alt=\"Kintsugi Project\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While I was practicing on the plates, I accidentally dropped my work mug (whilst at work).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/46332826404\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Kintsugi Project\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7859\/46332826404_639f64e680_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"569\" alt=\"Kintsugi Project\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I was scooping up all the shards and throwing them away, when I realized that maybe it would be a good project to try &#8220;kintsugi-ing&#8221; that mug as well. My employer had recently been acquired by a larger company, and they are now closing our site. I had thought that I&#8217;d keep the mug as a souvenir of all the trials and tribulations, and since the idea of wabi-sabi is that a thing is more beautiful for the life it has lived and its wear and breaks are a part of its history and aesthetic, I thought that was a healthy attitude to apply to this situation. So, yeah, it is a cheap corporate mug, but the process in this case was largely a symbolic one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some photos after the initial join, before the final gold step on top:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/40091751883\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7814\/40091751883_b53f81a4ac_z.jpg\" alt=\"Kintsugi Project\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/40091752793\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7870\/40091752793_ecdeb51480_z.jpg\" alt=\"Kintsugi Project\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/47056590241\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7852\/47056590241_4b97d08cf8_z.jpg\" alt=\"Kintsugi Project\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And here are some photos of the mug after it is all done, and I painted on the final part on top and dusted 24k gold dust onto the fresh resin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/32114993757\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Kintsugi Project\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7840\/32114993757_9db8486565_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"590\" alt=\"Kintsugi Project\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/46332831234\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7828\/46332831234_10df48b734_z.jpg\" alt=\"Kintsugi Project\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/46142990835\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7886\/46142990835_f772640686_z.jpg\" alt=\"Kintsugi Project\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tah-daaah!<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been curious about finding a food safe epoxy for a sort of &#8220;Kintsugi&#8221; project for some time now. 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I found this tutorial on YouTube which also recommends a food safe epoxy to try, and I thought it was really good: However, I made &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1694\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Kintsugi Project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[453,442,454],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-personal","tag-kintsugi","tag-personal","tag-wabi-sabi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}